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Gods of the Earth | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Sword
Label: Kemado
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1846
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 71
UPC: 184923000719
EAN: 0184923000719
ASIN: B0014DC0R8
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | The Sundering | | • | The Frost-Giant's Daughter | | • | How Heavy This Axe | | • | Lords | | • | Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians | | • | To Take the Black | | • | Maiden, Mother & Crone | | • | Under the Boughs | | • | The Black River | | • | The White Sea |
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| Customer Reviews:
 I couldn't disagree more with the haters August 21, 2008
Marc S. Wenner (Shepherdstown, WV United States)
I read the negative reviews and have to say that I don't think we have the same cd. This is a great rock and roll album. If you happen to love stoner rock/metal, you certainly aren't going to hear anything new. BUT, you aren't going to hear anything really new or different in the whole genre. This music is for people who like this kind of music. Don't allow a music snob to make the call for you, hear them yourself.
Good, but not as good as Age of Winters August 4, 2008
D. Budzik (Fresno, CA USA)
Okay, The Sword first caught my attention, along with most people, in Guitar Hero 2. Yeah, I know... whatever. Anyway, Age of Winters was really good - it was kind of like what Black Sabbath would have sounded like in a slightly alternate universe (obviously before Dio). Their sophomore effort, Gods of the Earth, continues this, but the sound engineering was a bit disappointing. Guitars were less distinct - a fuzzier sound, and it was like they went out of the way to muffle the vocals. The songs are great, but the album gets four stars for poor sound quality.
WICKED July 27, 2008
Adam C. Donnelly (Albany, NY USA)
In the stoner rock scene, if it is a scene at all, The Sword are up there with Clutch and Fu Manchu. They definately captivate the fan bases of both those bands. Expect big things from this band in the future.
Whereas most of these stoner rock bands take their inspiration from Sabbath and Mountain, a metal sound forged from a molten aloy of FM Classic rock and obscure ancient acid rock, The Sword update the sound with element's of Slayer and Iron Maiden.
The album is structured much like a thrash album from the '80's injecting some sort of Robert E. Howard fantasy and Norse/ Saxon warfare imagery into their lyrics. The strange thing about that is they somehow play it like they live it, rather than make it into a parody. Don't ask me how but they do.
Highlights include "Maiden, Mother and Crone", a dense, heavy groove laden track about a warrior's encounter with a fair maiden less fair than she seems, and "To Take The Black", a track that makes you just wanna go out and march across a frostbitten waste to battle great and terrible things.
Awesome, huge, smokin tracks that bring you back to being a kid again.
Highly recommended for the nostalgia of reading the lyric sheet inside the album.
 Why do I buy this stuff? July 22, 2008
birdman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bad recording. A few tracks hit hard. But the album does not live out to its potential. If you picked up an instrument today... 3 years later you could sound like this!
Not even Timbaland could save this album.
Very good, but falls a little short of Age of Winters July 21, 2008
J. Vaughn (Norwich, NY)
First off, The Sword is a fantastic band. J.D. Cronise has one of the best metal voices in music today - it's dark and foreboding, without senseless grumbling. You actually can hear what he sings. The rest of the band is fantastic as well. The guitar riffs are thick, heavy, groovy, and very Sabbath-influenced. The acoustic guitar pieces are also amazing. My only complaint is that the riffs on this album are missing some of the groove and catchiness of Age of Winters. The tracks seem a little slower, and less energetic. Still, if you want great, classic-style heavy metal, it's worth buying.
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